Single mother of a handsome boy, trying to make it work everyday. Juggling, family, to-do-lists, therapies, school, working from home, Gabo's SPD and just about everything that life throws at me. Welcome to my crazy life.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Vanilla Orange Pancakes

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This morning I got up early to my dogs barking like crazy at 6 in the morning.I went to check and it turns out my puppy, Pepper, had gotten
out of the backyard and was running up and down the street. Afterwards, I could not go back to sleep; I got
dressed and went to abuela’s house for coffee and breakfast.I took her to the supermarket.Did her hair and came home.

Daddy and Gabo had woken up already and were watching TEC the
Tractor when I walked into the room and asked what they wanted for
breakfast.Gabo’s eyes lit up and he
said “Pancakes”.It has been a while
since I have made pancakes, although recently I took to making Belgian Waffles,
pancakes I seldom make.Only for special
Sundays, mostly because I am trying to limit the amount of gluten my son
consumes.

I went to the kitchen to make pancakes for my Gabo and
Daddy.I opened the cupboard and took
out the pancake mix, and I saw a bag of ground flax seeds, I grabbed the
vanilla extract and behind was the orange extract and I remember I had lemons
in the fridge.I also grabbed the
cinnamon, just because I add it to everything.

Orange Vanilla Pancakes

1½ cup Krusteaz Pancake Mix

1 cup whole milk

2 tsps. vanilla extract

1 tbsp. ground flax seeds

1 tsp orange extract

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tbsp. coconut oil

The recipe in the bag calls for just pancake mix and
water.I believe that if cannot make it
from scratch, make store-bought mixes and make them better.I substituted milk for the water and added all
the other ingredients in a bowl and mixed with a fork until they came together.

I had a pre-heated pan and sprayed it with non-stick spray
and pour 1/3 cup of the batter per pancake, we like them medium sized. I cooked
them until they are a deep golden color and flipped them.

This recipe yielded 6 pancakes.Daddy had 4, Gabo had 2 and I had 1. It was
delicious, even they noticed something was different and they gobbled them
down.Gabo asked if we were having pancakes
again for breakfast tomorrow.